I and I know Jah.

I'm totally hesitant to make write about Ska and Reggae. This I feel is a music that i have only truly gotten into wholly within the past year. Sure I've know about it and listened to it since i was young, but in the past year i have immersed myself into it. Even with my immersion into the music I still feel ignorant about it. The culture with Reggae is where i feel the most ignorant. Understanding Rasta is kind of hard for me because i am not black, and even though i am an intelligent human being and I kind of get it, living it and intellectually getting it are totally different things. I am Babylon, and I hate this. Sure i can change some of this but still i will always be Babylon.
I suppose all that really matters is that we are all Brethren. I-rey.

10 Reggae, Ska(skapunk!), Rocksteady, Dub, and what have you songs that i love.

10.Burning Spear-Jah No Dead
9.Chris Murray-Rock Steady
8.The Forthrights-Liquor Store Music/One By One
7.Jimmy Cliff-The Harder they Come
6.The Skatalites-Guns of Navarone
5.English Beat-Mirror in the Bathroom
4.Bob Marley and the Wailers-Punky Reggae Party
3.The Pinstripes-One Drop
2.King Tubby-King Tubby's Conversation Dub
1.The Specials-A Message To You Rudy

A lot of these are some new discoveries, but number one is the first ska song i ever heard. Much thanks to Bob Fisher for introducing my dad to "We are Two Tone." The old man would play those two tone tracks all the time. Totally made a lasting impression because when i got to high school and got into punk rock and third wave ska i realized that lot of it sounded like the stuff my dad would play. Then i got addicted to The Specials, much like most other rudeboys of my age.

Keep It Real Rudi.